Australia (nation)
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10
Dates:
1907 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Fonds
Papers of the Young family, 1988
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/41
Scope and Contents
Two undated copies of a seven-page letter from Norah Young to her children, 1916, describing her voyage to Australia and early years there; photocopies of notes on the career of Reginald St Chad Young, originally written in 1965 (4 pages); xerox copies of photographs in the possession of the family (6 pages); and a family tree (1 page).The papers are accompanied by 'Glimpses of the past: a long life ended', a photocopied transcript of an article that appeared in the 'Adelaide advertiser'...
Dates:
1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Australasia miscellanea
Fonds
Papers on North Queensland exploration
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 293
Scope and Contents
Six items relating to exploration in North Queensland, preceded by a list of contents signed 'H. Ling Roth'.1. "'Map of the Port Mackay District' given to me by Edmund Rawson as the original map made by Captain John Mackay but repudiated by him when published in facsimile in my book. So either Rawson made a mistake or I misunderstood him", 13" x 10½", undated.2. 'Expedition to Cape York 1862', typescript copied from the 'Brisbane Courier', 15 November...
Dates:
1862 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Parkside Hospital for the Insane (North Front), near Adelaide, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/19
Scope and Contents
260 x 200 mm. A view of the buildings with gardens in front. The west front of the building is at the right of the picture, with a wing to the left not seen in the previous photograph.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parkside Hospital for the Insane (West Front), near Adelaide, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/18
Scope and Contents
260 x 190 mm. A front view of the large stone building, with white dressed stone decorations, and large central tower. Probably designed by William Bennett Hayes, and now demolished. The building stood in what is now the eastern part of the Botanic Gardens.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parliament Buildings, 1870 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/142
Scope and Contents
183 x 125 mm. A view of the rear of the buildings, which face on to Spring Street. The building was started in 1856 and continued with various delays until 1892 (even then, two sides of the building remained unfaced).
Dates:
1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parliament House and Treasury, 1885 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/1
Scope and Contents
199 x 145 mm. A view of the Parliament House building from Spring Street. The treasury building can be seen in the distance. The Parliament buildings face down Bourke Street and have an ornate frontage with steps leading up to Doric columns and facings of Mount Difficult stone. Building was started in 1856 and largely completed by the middle of the 1880s.
Dates:
1885 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Victoria
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Parliament House, Brisbane, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/2
Scope and Contents
225 x 180 mm. A similar photograph to C3085C/4, although a slightly different angle. In the time lapse between the two pictures, the road has been surfaced, there are telegraph poles, and the street is lit by gas. A horse no longer browses in front of the main entrance to the building. The extensions to the building have not yet, however, been started.
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parliament House, Perth, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/36
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. A three-quarter front view of the buildings from over the road.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parliament Houses, 1873
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B/8
Scope and Contents
227 x 175 mm. A three-quarters front view of the Parliament above the Botanical gardens. This photograph shows the House before the additions which made the frontage one side of a rectangular building.
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parliament Houses, Melbourne (complete design), 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/2
Scope and Contents
187 x 134 mm. A photograph of a model of the Victoria Parliament buildings, complete with dome. This dome was never in fact built.
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Tour of the South Seas
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Parotia Lawesii, Golden Bird of Paradise, 1887 - 1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/15
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Fifteen labelled but undated watercolours on gilt-edged card, each 105 x 165 mm.
Dates:
1887 - 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parramatta River from Ryde, Scene of the Great Rowing Matches, 1888 - 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/101
Scope and Contents
203 x 154 mm. A view looking west up the Parramatta River, which is crossed by an iron girder bridge. In the foreground are scattered houses and fields.
Dates:
1888 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour., 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7512
Scope and Contents
Landscape format.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7513
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing man fishing from rocks].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7514
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing lighthouse].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Part of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne], 1870
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/9
Scope and Contents
388 x 272 mm. A view looking along a path in the Gardens, lined with trees and with statues at intervals.
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Part of the University of Sydney (unfinished) about 1872, 1872
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086C/4
Scope and Contents
280 x 225 mm. A three-quarter front view of the east front of the main building, with the Great Hall on the right. Built in Gothic style, the buildings were designed by Edmund Blacket and started in 1854. The word 'unfinished' in the caption is unclear, or may refer to another part of the University. These particular buildings were completed around 1860.
Dates:
1872
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Peaches and apricots, Hermitage State Farm, Darling Downs, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/15
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. Photograph looking down a row of peach trees.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Peattsburg, 1870 - 1880
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/58
Scope and Contents
236 x 179 mm. A view of the colliery, showing railway lines and trucks, with factory buildings and a brick chimney in the foreground.
Dates:
1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Peeps in sunny Queensland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085R
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced portfolio containing three black and white photographs of bush scenes, with captions on the front of the prints.
Dates:
1913
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Pemell's Flour Mill, Hay Street, 1870 - 1879
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/73
Scope and Contents
274 x 207 mm. View from waste land looking towards the rear of the factory, a substantial four storey sandstone building with an additional attic floor in wood-frame. A 'To Let' sign stands in front of the building, but whether this refers to the mill or the land behind it is unclear.
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Penrith Station, 1887
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/38
Scope and Contents
340 x 262 mm. A view of the platform (one side of the tracks only) with passengers awaiting a train.
Dates:
1887
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Peridotite Island', Hannans Lake, Kalgoorlie area, 1901 - 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/41
Scope and Contents
152 x 107 mm. A view from 'Serpentine Bay' looking over the dry lake bed towards the peridotite outcrop. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 50.
Dates:
1901 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Permanent Building-from corner of Spring and Victoria Streets, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/2
Scope and Contents
288 x 187 mm. (oval print) A view looking along a path in the exhibition hall gardens towards the buildings in the background.
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).